Salmon cloth on boards. Very clean. No writing or damage. DJ chipped head and foot of spine, taped inside to prevent loss. Detective for insurance company meets daffy, manipulative babe who claims her jewels were stolen. Every five minutes they have a drink. Out of nowhere someone starts shooting arrows. I give up. 217 pp. View more info

Black cloth on boards. First free endpaper missing. Lawrence Fenton, head of Britain's Secret Service, is asked to help form an anti-communist Northern League. His main adversary is Dr. Hardnauth, resident leader of the Communists. It comes out right in the end with the help of Olaf Strand and his Scandinavian patriots. This copy has minor spine wear, but is clean and odour free. 252 pp. View more info

Original black cloth on boards. For the Crime Club, Inc. First free endpaper removed. No writing. Eight stories in this volume: The Greek Play, The Mountain Meadow, the Pair of Spectacles, The Bunch of Grapes, The Sported Oak, The Oak Gall, The Little Dog, and The Walrus Ivory. 308 pp. View more info

Original red cloth on boards. A funny thing happened in the bookstore. I saw the previous owner's name scrawled in pencil and judged him to be of low-average intelligence. I wondered what had led him to buy this book, and to read it, presumably. I've told lots of people that I never read fiction since there are so many non-fiction books I want to read in the limited time I have allowed in my schedule. Out of pure curiosity I started to read, and soon came to the ter... View more info

"Of course it was because the last man he had been speaking to was an Irishman, that it was an Irish song he was singing, 'Believe me, if all those endearing young charms, which I gaze on.' Which I gaze on. They said I had not gazed on a woman whse body was bloody and dead. Under a tree in the electric light. Dead and bloody and foully murdered. In the light of the silvery moon. 'Which I gaze on so fondly today - ' Red cloth on boards. First free endpaper removed. 19... View more info

Brown cloth on boards. Fairville Book & Music Shop stamps and library evidence. Previous owner's bookplate. Still very clean and sound. A clipping from the DJ pasted inside the front cover reveals that a brilliant young sculptor is being tried for murder. Although he is freed of the charges, the case still haunts him. He vows to clear up the case and find the lost formula that started it all. An attractive woman is involved, too. Endpaper notes. 301 pp. View more info

Dark blue cloth on boards. No writing or damage. No information found on book or author. Antagonist seems to be a male reporter, Mr. Bliss, who receives a personal request to re-open a murder case he had covered two years earlier. A promise of twenty thousand dollars if he brings the criminal to justice succeeds in gaining his attention, and his involvement. 367 pp. View more info

Original red cloth on boards. No DJ. Foxed edges its only fault. A Mike Strang mystery of murder for money, with the required distractions of sex and family devotion. Which widow is which? Only one other copy on this site. 192 pp. View more info

Red cloth on boards. Lovely art deco cover marred only by two shalllow 1 inch scrapes - one to the lower front joint and the other to the top rear edge. No writing and no date. Text block browning. 335 pp. Billed as a romance novel, this story is centred largely on the ancient practice of execution by weight. View more info

Original red cloth on boards. Price-clipped DJ nearly perfect. When the pianist of a small dance band was murdered, several people, including John Preston, wondered what the motive was. Preston managed to interview a girl from the club, but is left with more questions than answers. 192 pp. View more info

Red cloth on boards. Spine titles faded out. 9 date stamps from local lending library bookshop. "Mr. Power, the brilliant young detective who was called in by the next-of-kin might have been pardoned for imagining that the most important clue was a white rose." - Piece of DJ glued in. View more info

Original mustard cloth on boards. Unclipped DJ chipped head and foot of spine. One gutter strain glued to prevent further damage. A British boy who is adept in languages dreams of fighting in WWI even though his family is against it. Not only does he get into it, he becomes a valuable agent among the enemy themselves. Full of "Britishisms" but easy enough to follow - if one stays alert ! Surprise ending ! 251 pp. View more info

Original blue cloth on boards. Corner and joint wear. Follows the very successful "Drink to Yesterday." Alternate title is A Toast to Tomorrow. Tommy Hambledon, the professor-spy, washes back to shore, but struggles with amnesia. 287 pp. View more info

Green cloth on boards. Finger pull damage head of spine. Previous owner's name. Hinges lightly cracked. Published 1880 after, but not as sequel to, The Fallen Leaves. A sinister widow uses her dead husband's poisons to control the lives of those around her. 416 pp. View more info

Green cloth on boards. previous owner's name. Missing first free endpaper. Short split to front joint. Another offering from the works of a close associate of Charles Dickens. Her new husband has been using a false name, which gives her doubts about his past. She learns he has been on trial for the murder of his first wife. Can the bride succeed in proving him innocent ? 559 pp. View more info

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